HEY APATHY! GIANT EYE MONSTER

THE EYEBALL & THE HERO

They say that a giant eye is the window to
the soul, so it is of little surprise that it was the first thing the
extraterrestrial electronics attacked. The City of Gears spirals
centrifugally around an enormous ocular, a mystical conglomeration of
the human thoughts, ideas, hopes and desires located in the middle of
the mechanical metropolis. Although most people never notice this
surreal force it is known in urban legends to be the last hope for
humanity in this increasingly cold and technological existence. Like
the soul in many religions, this oracle helps maintain a certain
degree of balance that permits mankind's unique facilities for
compassion, innovation, emotion and socialization. While it remains
questionable just how powerful the eye is seeing as how far man has
fallen, few are willing to discard the notion that every little bit
helps.

To say the least it might have been
devastating when the eye was located by our subliminal enemies had it
not been for the appearance of a strange little hero. The alien
technologies started the assimilation in our homes and quickly moved
out into the streets. Like futuristic leviathans the attacked the
citizens with strange tentacles merging with our ears, appendages and
minds. The tentacles came from the sky violently attracted to the
crowded cities. They tore penetrated the flesh of almost every
individual and became part of our routines. Despite the visceral
horrors of the absorption the creatures moved with such swift stealth
that not only did the people fail to notice but many of them willing
partook in the invasion.

It was during these attacks that the
enemy discovered the “Eye of the City”. At first there was some
resistance but the eye was no match. Being a personified projection
of the citizens own humanity, the eye was greatly weakened but the
electronics already well established influence. The giant eye was torn
apart breaking into hundreds of smaller eyes. Each eye was then
captured, corrupted and attached to a robotic tendril to be used to
further the mass manipulation. It was at this exact moment (so the
legend says) that the optimistic energy of the eye escaped.

At another part of the city an
unprecedented occurrence took place. One of the citizens began
resiting the assimilation. Fighting back with all his heart he was
dragged through the city by an enormous metallic tentacle. Some where
in the midst of this terrible struggle a strange metamorphosis began.
The energy of the eye was drawn to this little resistor and the two
sought each other out collided and became one. Together a new hope
was created and the supposed victim, born again with great strength.
He broke loose from the alien grasp and took flight wearing a cape
and mask adorned with the eyeball symbol, a new superhero to fight in
these terrifyingly technological times!